Ahmed Ould Bouceif

Mauritanian military officer and politician

أحمد ولد بوسيف

Prime Minister of MauritaniaIn office
6 April 1979 – 27 May 1979PresidentMustafa Ould SalekPreceded byOffice reestablished (Moktar Ould Daddah prior to abolition in 1961)Succeeded byAhmed Salim Ould Sidi Personal detailsBorn1934Died27 May 1979 (age 45)
off the coast of Dakar, SenegalMilitary serviceBattles/warsWestern Sahara War

Lt. Col. Ahmed Ould Bouceif (Arabic: أحمد ولد بوسيف, 1934 – 27 May 1979) was a Mauritanian military officer and political leader. On April 6, 1979, he seized power in a coup d'état together with Col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah and other officers, ousting Col. Mustafa Ould Salek from real power, however kept in his symbolic position with no real power until June 3, 1979.

He became the 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritania in the new government. He died the following month when a De Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo airplane of the Mauritania Islamic Air Force,^[1] crashed off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, at which point Haidallah emerged as the regime's main strongman.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Political offices
Preceded by Post vacant	Prime Minister of Mauritania 1979	Succeeded by Ahmed Salim Ould Sidi

Prime ministers of Mauritania

Colonial

Daddah

Independent

Daddah
office abolished, 1961 – 1979
Bouceif†
Sidi†*
Haidalla†
Bneijara
Taya†
Haidalla†
Taya†
Boubacar
Khouna
Guig
Khouna
M'Bareck
Boubacar
Zeidane
Waghef
Laghdaf
Hamedine
Béchir
Sidiya
Bilal
Djay

*acting †military

References

^ "Accident de Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo 5T-MAX, Sunday 27 May 1979". asn.flightsafety.org. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
^ Handloff, Robert Earl.; Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. (1990). "Mauritania : a country study". Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. p. 33. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
^ "MAURITANIA PREMIER DIES IN PLANE CRASH (Published 1979)". The New York Times. 28 May 1979. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
^ "The Death of Mauritania's Prime Minister Last Week Added Uncertainty (Published 1979)". The New York Times. 3 June 1979. Retrieved 31 January 2024.